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Like Jared Diamond in Guns Germs and Steel Peter Turchin in War and Peace and War uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to make a highly original argument about the rise and fall of empires Turchin argues that the key to the formation of an empire is a societys capacity for collective action He demonstrates that high levels of cooperation are found where people have to band together to fight off a common enemy and that this kind of cooperation led to the formation of the Roman and Russian empires and the United States But as empires grow the rich get richer and the poor get poorer conflict replaces cooperation and dissolution inevitably follows Eloquently argued and rich with historical examples War and Peace and War offers a bold new theory about the course of world history. BIRLA VISWAKARMA MAHAVIDHYALAYA. (. ENGINEERING . COLLEGE). VALLABH VIDYANAGAR. SUBJECT: ELEMENTS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING (CODE-2110004). BE First Level First Semester (Self Finance. Rome built great stuff. Rome built great roads to travel on and aqueducts to bring water into the city.. Rome also built great stadiums and amphitheaters for the entertainment of the people.. Romans also developed the use of the arch. . 6. :. Why do empires collapse? . A . comparative case study of the decline and fall of Era 3 empires. 1. What goes up must come down!. Empires rise, but they also fall.. This unit will look at empires at their strongest, and then explore why they fell apart. . Land Empires. Control of huge lands & people. Requires large military investment. Vulnerable to land & sea routes. Requires massive infrastructure investment. Superior technology used to suppress natives. Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies. . Alexander the Great. AP World Theme. State-Building and forms of government. Empires. Historiographical perspective. Eurocentric. Alexander the Great formed the first empire to connect the european continent to asia.. Rise. Fall. Soybeans. 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